The working conditions of the Turkish IP Academy specified by the newly published regulation

Implementing Regulation on Intellectual Property Academy (Regulation No. 30948) was published in the Turkish Official Gazette on November 14, 2019.

The Regulation regulates the issues related to training, consultancy, research and coordination activities carried out within the academy on intellectual property rights, fees charged for the activities and services rendered, secretariat services and other issues.

According to the Regulation, the Academy will be in charge of the following tasks:

• offering basic and specialized training programs in the field of intellectual property, including formal, distance and mixed theoretical and practical training,
• organizing domestic internship programs, search meetings, panels, conferences, symposiums, congresses and similar activities,
• conducting field researches,
• carrying out coordination and domestic cooperation activities,
• providing advices on IP matters,
• ensuring that the professional knowledge and skills of public and private sector employees in the field of intellectual property are established within the framework of international norms by making personnel certification in accordance with the national and international standards.

The Academy will be administered by a Board, members of which will be consisted of a representative from the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office, a representative from the General Directorate of Copyright, two university professors, one of whom is specialized on industrial property rights and the other of whom is specialized on the copyrights, one patent or trademark attorney, one sector representative working in the field of copyrights, one member appointed by the Supreme Court of Appeals and one judge working in the civil or criminal courts of intellectual and industrial rights.

The training centers, which will function as excutive branches of the Academy according to the Regulation, will be established within the body of the Turkish Patent and Trademark Office.

The training centers will be authorized to issue certificate or certificate of attendance to the eligible participants with or without examination, depending on the nature of the training and the conditions announced in advance. These centers will also publish educational materials, research reports, dissertations, scientific, legal or technical articles in the field of intellectual property in electronic and/or printed media and will launch a website for the public use for these purposes.